Virus Starters Should Get the Death Penalty!

The BBQ Pit
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AAARRRGGGHHH!!!1

I just had to pay a computer consultant over $300 and one of my employees had to work 24 hour staight because of a stupid virus started by some nimrod computer geeks.

I mean what is it with you people(virus starters) I guess you’re pretty intelligent to even start a virus but I guess you don’t have any character.(wow that sounds a little like our past president). Anyway why don’t they spend their time creating something that helps instead of creating something that destroys and erases someone elses hard work.

I mean what a bunch of losers. I can’t even think of a good rant because I have been so hacked off over these last few days. Anyway I think virus starters should be given the death penalty slowly and painfully. How about put their evil fingers on a keyboard that shocks them periodically or when they doze off to sleep until they are dead from lack of sleep or starvation?

I sure hope I get to serve on jury one day that is deciding the fate of one of these pathetic dweebs.

If you can think of a better punishment, please by all means type it out.

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Well, if we really wanted them to be punished, we could have them either read your writing or talk to you… I think that would be enough of a Hell on Earth to make them repent.

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Sheesh, Bill what happened to “turn the other cheek?” :wink:

You could always change your system over to Macintosh. Next to no-one writes viruses for Macs.

Not that I have a lot of patience for the people who write viruses, either. I just have a hard time equating “inconveniencing me” with “deserves to die.” But that could just be me.

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How about deny them the right to a fair trial by using a jury that’s made up its mind before the trial starts? :stuck_out_tongue:

Bill, Bill, Bill - sorry to hear about your computer problems. I think the death penalty is a bit harsh, though, don’t you? Computer viruses are the modern equivalent to vandalism, if you think about it. Your virus was probably started by some bored teenager with too little to do. If we had higher quality television programming and cheaper Nintendo games for the chilluns to amuse themselves, I think we could prevent many of these viruses. Until then, buy yourself a virus protection program - and remember to update it frequently.

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*Originally posted by dogsbody *

I probably will but not for a couple days. God said to turn the other cheek but he never said when. I will eventually. :wink:

Now this concerns me. Why is that(no one writing virus’ for Macs?

Yea, I guess you’re right. Death is a little extreme. What about the torture I listed for a month or so? :smiley:

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That’s 'cause nobody ever writes ANYTHING for Macs. Rat bastards.

Say what you will about virus creators. I’ve never had one (I’m a Mac person), so I guess I can consider myself lucky.

But remember: this is a lot of work to make, is distributed freely, and doesn’t do the virus maker any good. You have to admit, it sounds like an altruistic endeavor.

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Well, Bill, I think YOU should get the death penalty for:

  1. Allowing a virus to enter your computer systems by using shitty operating systems and not having adequate security measures, and

  2. Paying someone $300.00 to fix it for you! Bwaahahahahah!!
    Dolt.

PS: There have been several hundred viruses written for Macs, but they’re more difficult to spread nowadays, as Macs aren’t so peachy keen about default network services and executing arbitrary code.

I’m still waiting for a virus to show up on my Solaris and OpenBSD boxen.

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Well, Bill, are you speaking tongue in cheek, or are you serious? I mean, you aren’t SERIOUS, just ranting, like when I say I want to strangle my cat for knocking over my doll collection-I’m not SERIOUS.

I don’t like trolls or virus creators either. The death penalty, is too strong. However, I’d be lying if I didn’t want to smack someone who fucked up my computer.

(BTW, don’t people who intentionally create and pass on viruses usually end up in jail, anyways? Isn’t it illegal?)

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Geez, does WildestBill get this annoyed at people who cut him off in traffic? Does he have access to firearms? If so, I’m starting to get worried.

Not to minimize the pain of dealing with computer virues, but how did the viruse spread to begin with? Obviously the employees at the site referred to in the OP are fairly clueless about the various simple mthods of avoiding infection (don’t open *.exe e-mail attachments, for one thing!).

IMO, a bit of employee training is in order here.

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Guin,

No, I am not serious. I wouldn’t mind the little electric shocks to the keyboard as a punishment though.(kinda like the shocks given in “Ghostbusters” by Bill Murray.)

Davis,

You know I understand it is a type of vandalisim. But what’s the point in this sorta of vandalism. I mean in the old way of vandalism you break glass at least you get hear the glass break and it is not much work.

But a virus is alot of work and you don’t hear anything. All you see is files deleting or think they deleting. What is the fun of that? The people that write these things are truly GEEKS IMO!!!

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FYI, Bill: “geek” is not an insult anymore; in fact, you just complimented them.

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I dunno why everybody has to come down so hard on Bill for ranting a bit. It’s the Pit, people–when folks in here talk about knob-gobbling goatfuckers, you don’t take THEM literally, do you? – well, do you?

Anyway, I think the death penalty is too good for virus releasers. Seriously. “Hangin’s too good for 'em”. What they ought to get is the Living Death Penalty.

The reason they do this, Bill, is because they get a tremendous power jolt from seeing their handiwork all over the ABC Evening News. “Love Bug Disables Internet Worldwide!” I mean, what a rush! And the reason they need that power jolt is because in RL, they don’t get any at all. Socially, they’re rather marginal. They have no Life Opportunities for pumping up their self-esteem other than through computers. They see themselves as ants caught in the heavy machinery of the Post-Industrial Revolution, so this is one way for them to get back at it and make themselves feel good about themselves.

So, to punish them properly, they should get lifetime sentences in a place where they can never, ever get a jolt of power from anything or anyone, where they will never, ever have any more Life Opportunities to pump up their self-esteem.

I am speaking, of course, of Taco Bell. They should receive life sentences, without parole, at a Taco Bell drive-up window.

Seriously.

And needless to say, no access to a computer ever, ever again, not even to check their e-mail.

So, Bill, whaddaya think? I realize Taco Bell sounds a little harsh, but Wal-Mart isn’t quite severe enough (they’ve got that Wal-Mart Team thing with the blue pinneys). I’m open to suggestions. Jiffy Lube? Nah, too much scope for actually doing something helpful and constructive.

No, I think spending the rest of their natural lives handing out bags of food to soccer moms in Plymouth Voyagers sounds about right.

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Umm, dude! Whatever happened to ‘get outside and play and get some exercise and sunshine?’

Not being real computer friendly, I’ve had to spend a few bucks having a virus removed that my security program ignored. I’ve also had my paycheck glitched by some stupid virus getting into the company system and am forever getting virus warning e-mails by the ton. I’ve a couple of friends who have had laboriously compiled files scrambled by viruses and know companies which spend a chunk of the yearly bonus money making sure their computer systems are secure.

Anyone releasing a virus is, in my opinion, committing a malicious destructive act. Hackers, who just have to crack a security system to prove they have big balls are different from virus makers. Virus guys want to screw with people, knowing that the chances of them getting caught is real low and if they do, the penalties are mild.

My solution? Catch 'em, toss their butt in the can for a few years where they get to be someone’s bitch for a while and make them pay for repairing any damage they did. Either that, or let everyone they screwed up take a whack at them with a 2x4.

If I could have caught the one responsible for the virus that screwed my system up, I’d have hurt him seriously.

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I think Bill is right about one thing-virus creators are, in essence, vandals. They are VANDALIZING a system.

What happens if a hospital computer gets a virus, or something like that? Not likely, but who knows? It still fucking sucks.
In fact, I believe at my college and the community college I attended previously, knowingly distributing a virus was grounds for expulsion and prosecution.

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Yeah, we already know all about you and your fucked-up ideas for social engineering.

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Wow, and they say that Stoid’s knee jerks!!!
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The man’s out of office. Let it drop or start coming up with some good Hillary material, Leno.

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stof, you beat me to the punch by 10 lousy minutes. Wild Bill engaging in boring knee-jerk anti-Clinton sniping? Imagine that…

And let me get this straight: You would take great pleasure seeing a virus maker get tortured, yet you complain in another thread that posters don’t have enough “empathy” towards your buddy who got convicted of drunk driving.

So what’s your platform, Bill? Tough On Crime or Bleeding Heart Liberal?

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I wonder if any virii programmers have ever been dumb enough to get their own virus…

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Christ Alphagene, I think it’s pretty clear that Wild Bill is practicing the Pit-honored tradition of exaggeration…

The problem with making viruses is that it’s not that difficult for someone with some programming experience to make one. When Melissa hit, I looked at the code (it was a script, so it is basically spread as source, and not compiled code), and it was freaking SIMPLE.

And you know what? I couldn’t stop myself from imagining how it could have been written better, to spread itself more efficiently. For example, it spread by going down the victim’s phone book, so it always sent itself first to people at the top of the alphabet. The result was that in a company, the people at the top of the list would get overloaded, and “virus throughput” would suffer. Solution? Instead of going down the phone list in order, it could randomize the list then send.

Of course, I didn’t do anything of the like, because I’m not a damn vandal. But with much less effort and risk than say, tossing brick through a window, someone with lesser morals than I could have done millions, maybe billions of dollars of damage.

So, the people with the power to make these viruses have skill (in this area) to surpass most adults, yet they still only have the morals of children.

Like many stated, the Windows OS, and even more so the Outlook software, need to take some blame for doing little to stop such simple attacks. There was an interesting article in Slate after Melissa hit, that was extremely critical of Windows. What made it even more interesting is that Slate is owned by Microsoft. MS did have a rebuttal, but I give them credit for not killing the article to begin with.

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Christ back atcha, Revtim, I think it’s pretty clear that by asking someone not running for public office what their “platform” is, I might be engaging in some of that exaggeration tradition myself…